the article’s about a game getting overlooked, but you hide the name ‘under the fold’?  try to control that click-thirst, geez ;)

do you ever re-toast the bagel?  or ever scoop first, toast second?

Calling them “Youtube Social Justice Warriors” is a bad term for that.  Just call them counter-scammers

the tattoo was my favorite.  it was sufficiently cruel, but didn’t put him at any real risk of harm

There’s a site called “419eater” that has been doing this kind of thing for quite a while now, except with junk mail scammers. Think the “Nigerian prince” scam and stuff like that. It’s pretty entertaining to read the email threads, although some of them go a bit far. Some of the scammers just get talked into getting…

Calling out her rep in the update for not immediately getting your pop culture reference is a bit petty

Gamestop is taking pre-orders for this, but only over the phone

Does anybody think she was obliged to reply?  If she simply ignored the tweet, would anyone have been up in arms?  I doubt it.  She was criticized for her reply, not her non-reply

If publishing a Twitter thread isn’t soliciting feedback, what is? If she intended to put out a statement or article or whatever, and not have any feedback, she presumably had many options. Press release. Official blog with comments closed. Personal blog with comments closed. Interview with gaming press.

Ok, I’m no detective, but I see a slight problem with his story:

It’s almost certain that those people have good union contracts that would protect them in the event of an extremely abrupt pulling of the show.  And in the event of a non-abrupt cancellation, TV shows generally don’t last that long and those crew members have probably worked on dozens of productions before, or even…

That depends entirely on what someone considers “sharp”. It has been rising since 2000, yes. Here, look at fig. 1:

eep  i hope you have an interesting hobby. 

you know what else is nice?  a nice glass of room temperature water.   aaaahhhh sometimes i’ll just sip one while i train my unfocused eyes on an empty patch of wall.

over-represented compared to the proportion of total restaurants that are Asian.  In other words, if 15% of restaurants in a city are Asian, and they get 18% of violations, that would be over-representation.  That’s what he’s claiming, I haven’t seen the numbers myself

I Heart Hopplebee’s

if that’s true for your municipality’s health department, I’m sorry. 

overreporting by whom? health departments don’t rely on permit patties to police their restaurants. they use random spot checks, generally chosen at random by a computer

buffets don’t keep records of who eats there and what they eat

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